Tips on Teaching Your Child How to Read

As a parent, you have the primary responsibility of teaching your children, especially on the basic academic skills like reading and writing. If you don't start teaching your little ones how to read as early as you can manage, they might end up falling behind in school.

Read to your kids everyday or before bedtime. Knowing how words are supposed to sound will give them an excellent head start in associating written words with spoken ones. Moreover, children are excellent at emulating people, so if you make them feel how important reading is to you (thus the need to do it daily), they will eventually develop an interest in picking up a book and reading by themselves.

Use everyday objects that your kids are familiar with to teach them sounds. Point to your , trusty pet and clearly enunciate the word 'cat' or 'dog'. Remember to focus on teaching them the sounds that each letter makes when used in different words more than the names of each one. This will teach them to sound out the letter combination of each word instead of straining themselves in identifying each letter.

Focus on teaching them one letter at a time, building up on the different sounds that each one can make, depending on how they are used in a word. Teaching them the entire alphabet in one sitting might only end up confusing them.